Are you exploring feelings with your preschooler? Add these emotion centers and activities to your plans! Great for preschool and pre-k.
These free preschool feelings and emotions lesson plans dig into our emotions, along with ways to help children express and understand them.
Social-emotional activities have never been more important for younger kids.
This year I am so excited to be starting tot school for the second time with my sweet little Aubrey! She is 2 1/2 now and loved our Baby Bins last year, but is SO ready for more than one bin/activity a day. I won’t be blogging about our themes each week, as we will […]
Kids need to know and learn how to express their emotions. These circle time lessons about emotions for preschool. FREE printables included.
While Big M may look just like me, emotionally we are night and day. Though she is little, not unlike other kids her age, she can be very emotional, highly sensitive, and it sometimes takes very little to set off big feelings. We recently discovered the book, The Pout-Pout Fish,…
Some of the most common topics I see social workers and counselors teach is feeling identification and regulation. And it makes sense! Almost every student in need of counseling services could benefit ways to identify emotions in themselves or others, or learn ways to cope those feelings! As a result, I put together this activity ...
Social emotional activities for preschoolers focus on play and developmentally appropriate activities that foster essential skills!
Preschoolers have BIG FEELINGS. Having a preschool emotions sensory bin in the classroom is perfect for the beginning of the school year.
Teach Kids to recognize and verbalize their feelings with this Emotions Matching Activity Free Printable in Chinese and English
These Emoji Cutting Practice Sheets are perfect for preschoolers to work on their cutting skills! They're also super fun to use for world emoji day, too!
Free printable resources to teach social emotional skills in preschool. Printable feelings coloring page and a feelings book for kids to make.
Sometimes emotions can be really overwhelming for kids to understand. Using feelings printables and free emotions downloads can help!
Help your children learn emotions and feelings with our creative hands on activities using plastic eggs, faces, and the printable set with BONUS ideas.
FREE printable Emotions activity with an animal theme! Great for toddlers and preschoolers to learn about feelings, animals and build fine motor skills by clipping the cards with clothespins.
Social-emotional activities have never been more important for younger kids.
Find the perfect All About Me songs! Make circle time and lesson planning easier for your All About Me theme for preschool!
Use his free printable emotions reader for social emotional development activities to teach children about feelings in pre-k and kindergarten.
This list of 40+ books about feelings for preschoolers covers a wide range! We love using picture books to teach emotional skills.
Emotional regulation involves recognising emotions, using language to express feelings, learning to calm oneself down in the face of overwhelming emotions, and learning to treat others with kindness and empathy. And these are skills and behaviours that need to be learned. Toddlers and preschoolers are learning so much about themselves and their place in the...
Playing emotion games and completing fun social-emotional learning activities will help kids learn about how they are feeling, all while they are having fun. Use these simple and engaging Color by Emo
FREE monster feelings cards! Monster feelings cards and games to teach and review feeling words and vocabulary for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.
Use these hands-on engaging crafts and activities as part of your all about me unit.
Emotion regulation is important to children's social and emotional development.Teaching kids how to identify their feelings teaches them self control.
The goal of an “All About Me” theme is usually to help classmates get to know each other better, but when your only student is your own child, that puts a bit of a different spin on things. For our All About Me theme we focused on emotions, family, and learning more about ourselves. Here […]
25+ All About Me Preschool Theme Activities, All About Me Activities, The Preschool and Kindergarten age is the perfect time to start an All About Me Preschool Activities. At this age, they are interested in their bodies, and it's the ideal time to introduce the human body parts, emotions, and All About Me Printables
As part of our All About Me theme, we spent a little bit of time working on learning the parts of the body. More specifically, the head shoulders knees and
All About Me- Preschool Theme What is a better theme for little ones, them themselves! :) This All About Me theme is filled with math, literacy, and writing activities for preschoolers. You can buy the printables in my TPT shop. All About Me Preschool Pack Here is a look at some of the activities included in this pack. Tracing Tray- Fill with salt and trace each letter. Feelings Book- Draw expressions on each face to show the different emotions. Clothesline Names- Spell each child's name using clothespins. Fine Motor Patterns- Create and extend each pattern on a pipe cleaner. Counting Fingerprints- Use finger paint or ink to count finger prints. PreWriting Tracing Lines- Trace each line with dry erase marker, or use loose parts to practice the left to right progression. Blow Paint Portraits- This is such a fun art activity. Have each child draw a face. Squirt liquid watercolor on top of the head. Then, using a straw, blow the liquid watercolor to make hair! Color Sorting Houses- Sort people counters, bear counters, or pom poms into each colored house. These people counters are from Learning Resources. Roll and Dress- Roll a dice, and dress the person! How Tall- Measure the height of each child by using unifex cubes or snap blocks. High Five Number Hunt- Hide the handprints around the room. Find each number and trace the number on the recording page. Uppercase/Lowercase Letter Puzzles- Match the uppercase and lowercase letter to complete each puzzle. Keys to the House- Match the key to the correct house by finding words that rhyme. Beginning Sound Houses- Cover each picture with the correct beginning sound. Emotion Mats- Use play dough, or loose parts, to show each emotion. Spell Your Name- Find the letters to spell each child's name. House Shapes - Make a house using various shapes. Count how many of each shape you used. All About Me Preschool Pack For a year full of themes and activities, check out my Preschool Themes Mega Bundle. Preschool Themes Mega Bundle All About Me Play Dough- Grab some play dough, and Mr. Potato Head parts, and watch your kiddos create! Grab and Match- This was a super easy sensory bin of black beans, Learning Resources counters, and magnetic numbers. Use a magnetic wand and grab a number! Match it to a muffin tin. Hidden Names- Write each child's name with white crayon. Use liquid watercolors to paint (or spray) over the name, until the entire name appears. Tape Resist Letters- Make the first letter of each child's name with painters tape. Have the students paint the entire page. When the paint is dry, remove the tape. All About Me Sensory Play- The base of this bin is Kinetic Sand, and I added our people counters and buttons! Self Portrait- It is so much fun to see the progress in drawing and name writing throughout the year. This is my son's name at the beginning of PreK. He wrote his name, and drew a self-portrait with sharpie. Then, we placed bleeding tissue paper over top. We painted the tissue with water. When it dried, we peeled the bleeding tissue paper off! Icy Rescue- This is fun for just about any theme! Freeze people counters in a cake pan. Use squirters and water to rescue the people. House Addresses Freebie- Write or build each house address. Grab the freebie HERE. For more hands on learning, follow us on Instagram @michele_dillon
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? Make playdough pets with cute animal playdough mats. This fun pet activities for preschoolers is perfectt for a preschool pet themes.
Preschool Centers - Ice Cream ThemeThis adorable Preschool Ice Cream Theme Unit includes 16 interactive centers and 15 black and white printable worksheets. The centers work on Letter Recognition, Number Recognition, Counting, Tracing, Colors, patterns and more.SAVE $$ - Buy the GROWING BUNDLE of PR...
The goal of an “All About Me” theme is usually to help classmates get to know each other better, but when your only student is your own child, that puts a bit of a different spin on things. For our All About Me theme we focused on emotions, family, and learning more about ourselves. Here […]
Free printable resources to teach social emotional skills in preschool. Printable feelings coloring page and a feelings book for kids to make.